Improved washing-machine



e a i @tinted time @met @time a www N. MENDAL sHAFER,

or Newv YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVE!) WASHING-MACHINE.

To all whom tt'ma/y concern.-

Be it known that I, N. MENDAL SHAFER, of the city of New York, county and State of New York,

have invented a new and usefulMIachine for Washing;

Figure 1 is a side view of the machine, showing its.

internal structure.

Figure 2 is atop view of the same.

A A is a lever, pivoting at O, with movable joints at G C. Y

B is a movable wire box, a top view of which is given at M in iig.

E is a movable piston, with valve, which forces the water through the tube H, with stationary box D, with valve at the bottom, forining a pump which compels the waterto'form ja circuit in the direction indicated by the arrows; so that the samey water is used over until it has donc the work, or needs to be changed for clean water.

L is a stationary wire box.

l is open space between, which forms the clothesboX. f

X'is a. box, around which thewater flows which is pnt in, to give rthe machine properproportions, and vto accommodate the necessary machinery.

The operation, of washing is performed by placing the clothes in the box P, and putting in enough water or sudsto form a circuit and work the level' till Vthey are clean. regulated or lengthened according to the amount ei clothes in the box.

I do not 'desire to claim as my invention the washing-machine when composed of the pump and box L, except when in combination with the wire box B; but

What I do desire to claim as new, and protect by Letters Patent, is

The method lof squeezinr the suds throu 1rh the clothes, by means of unresisting wire boxes B and L,

I or vtheir equivalent, in combination with the pump H E and D, as herein described and set forth.

N. MENDALSHAFER.

Witnesses JNO. G. HOWARD, GnAs. W. HALLoCK.

The piston-rod attached to B should be 

